Who Is To Blame For Macbeth?

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The guards are to “blame” for the murder of the King because they were letting Lady Macbeth get them drunk at her husband’s party. They should have been watching out for the King and protecting him from dangers or anyone or anything that can harm him. Lady Macbeth remarks, “the surfeited grooms/Do mock their charge with snores” (II, ii, 5-6). Lady Macbeth is saying that she got the guards so drunk that they fell asleep and abandoned their duty of protecting the king. Although the guards got drunk they kill Duncan so they are not truly “responsible” for his death because they did not commit the dead they were just enjoying the party. If anything Duncan is more responsible for his own death than the

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